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Keelin, hallo again from hygge. It does have the supercillium (eyebrow) turbulent features but CAS does emphasise mountains, not sure why:
“Supercilium are short-lived cloud features, which appear in turbulent airflow over, and to the immediate lee of, steep mountain peaks during periods of strong mountain summit level winds.”See: The image shown here was used as our March 2022 Cloud of the Month.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/high-art-stunning-drone-photographs-capture-uks-beauty-3zbkj78g6
If this is sunset in the first picture then my mother was born across the bridge some way to the left.
Thank you, Laurence. I saw it on BBC News Channel 231. Most of my friends and relations have some Scottish blood (I’m English/Welsh) so I have sent your topic to them.
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/sycamores-robin-hood-tree-falls-12792484
A picture similar to this appeared in The Times, UK, today captioned:
Morning lights. The aurora borealis over Hadrian’s Wall at the Sycamore Gap near
Crag Lough, Northumberland, yesterday.N.B. Not visible, a replacement sycamore is growing close by, surrounded by a stone wall to keep out nibbling sheep.
I have posted other pictures of the Gap in the Forum in years long gone.https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/news-in-pictures-wednesday-march-2-2022-rpwgtkt6x
The fluctus picture appeared in The Times, UK, today.https://extremeweather.club/storm-chaser-photo-gallery/explore/lukas-gallo
Duncan, with shots of Wales and Scotland I am pleased you are keeping the flag flying for the UK. I think I can see the odd paramotor with a magnifying glass. But I am reminded of a top Forum contributor from a decade or more back. He lived in NW London but rode a motorbike down to Lasham Airfield in Hampshire to go gliding
https://www.lashamgliding.com/
I wonder if you know him. I remember he went on gliding holidays to Cumbria, UK and the Pyrenees.EDIT:
1) Having searched ‘glider’ the pilot was called Mike. Which maybe was why another Mike changed to Michael?
2) Having searched ‘Lasham’ he was “MR FlyByWire”
https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/forums/search/Lasham/
3) Mike Rubinhttps://www.facebook.com/BBCNW/videos/307645127997121/
Land and Sky is not dissimilar to my Cloudscape topic which I introduced as a combination of Cloud and Landscape. So I am with you in spirit Duncan. Good Luck with this topic to you and your pussycat.
hygge
I second Greg. Stunning picture.
The book Extraordinary Weather by Richard Hamblyn (a CAS Member) 2012 in association with the UK Meteorological Office (it acknowledges Gavin Pretor-Pinney on page 143) has a picture of a Wall Cloud on page 21 from NOAA as above (but not the picture in the link). The text says
” A regular feature of supercell storm systems, wall clouds (sometimes known as ‘pedestal clouds’) are isolated lowerings (sic) attached to the bases of storm clouds. They develop when rain-cooled air is pulled towards the mesocyclone (the supercell’s violently rotating core), its moisture condensing at a lower level than the principal cloud itself…..”The key to K-H is wind shear at a temperature boundary between two layers. I don’t think I am seeing that. It looks more wind push to me.
Striking images from the 2021 Ian Parry awards | The Sunday Times Magazine | The Sunday Times (thetimes.co.uk)
The image that caught my eye is way down and captioned:
“Horse riders in Cappadocia watch as hot-air balloons take off at sunrise
EMRE CAKMAK”https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/striking-images-from-the-2021-ian-parry-awards-wkbmwbxjs
Whilst there are stars the foreground is sunlit?
Up is pretty wild too, Keelin. And thank you for your kind words, as ever.
Sadly, the words below are a link to my picture which I think are gulls in pleasant clouds, but I cropped the clouds without thinking of CAS; and sadly because I suspect this ‘Reply’ is not going to work on the Forum.
EDIT: it didn’t work and I already deleted the picture from my computer, but I will try a new topic with the iNaturalist picture.
